Patrick Hurh wrote: > Well, what I'm talking about is very evident on my machine (G3 > powerbook). Quartz (aqua) windows move smoothly when I grab them and > drag them around the screen (fast refresh rate). However using XDarwin > with Gnome and sawfish, Xwindows blink, stutter and shear (slow refresh > rate) when I grab them and drag them around the screen. The same with > panels hiding and drawers sliding. Definitely not 'snappy'. I just get > the feeling that I'm using an emulator....
Some more info from my experience: There is a big difference between different machines, perhaps due to G4 optimisations(?): On my iBook(G3), X11 rootless mode is also very slow. If I measure it with one of the x11perf benchmarks, for example "x11perf -scroll500", I find it by a factor of 45 (!) slower than under LinuxPPC (300/s under LPPC vs 6.5/s under OSX/X rootless). On a G4 OTOH, I get a much higher speed (~700/s). So scrolling is 100 times faster on the G4. Rootless mode has been much improved in XFree86 CVS, so it should be faster in XFree86-4.3. If you restarted your XFree/gnome/sawfish session a couple of times, you should look out (with "ps" or "ps auxww") for zombie sawfish processes. Sawfish has a tendency of not really quitting when you quit it. I once had a X11 that was really slow as molasses, and even started complaining about it on mailing lists. It turned out that I had 4 sawfish processes running that together consumed 80% CPU time. Killing them gave a big speed boost :-) -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
